SIL BHL 20110105

SIL BHL Task Force Standing Meeting

January 5, 2011

Agenda:

• BHL Collections Committee membership opening (need SI presence)
  MRK had spoken to Robin Everly before the holiday season and she had agreed; Bianca will be in touch with her.
• NH space and pulling books (thanks Gil!)
  Stacks are open again for BHL work and will open to the public in later January. The grand opening in March.
• - lipscombb Jan 4, 2011 I'm curious to know the status of Macaw scanning
  Scanning is going on; but the uploading to IA is still being done manually; not working for SIL as it did for MOBOT; SIL in contact with Hank at IA to work out the details. KT hopes it will work by the end of the month.
• SIL and Anthropology scanning, see http://biodiversitylibrary.countersoft.net/issue/ViewIssue.aspx?id=4895&PROJID=7
  KT reported that she briefly spoke with Maggie Dittemore and expects there won't be problem with scanning items from Anth, will be following up with her later in the month.
• FYI, Scanlist export functionality finally clarified, Grace has list of all SIL bids
  BC reported that she can now export from the scanlist and gave to every scanning library; GC has the SIL list; KT asked if BC can get a list of things w/out bids.
• UIUC update
  UIUC now doing some scanning of BHL like materials; SCP asked if we can update the monographic de-dupper; UIUC will also do gap-filling for BHL
• FYI from Bianca
  Global BHL Project Manager William Ulate Rodriguez is finally moving to St. Louis (from Costa Rica) 1/18
• Internet Archive Pricing Updates
  IA is looking into modifying the pricing of scanning and also changing the derivatives generated.
• CiteBank
  BC asks, could use some SIL eyes to check SIL digital repository items now in CiteBank harvested via OAI; SP said that Doug Dunlop will take the first cut at things.
• Curious also about providing some language for publications like Flora of the U.S.S.R. on our Permissions page...
  MRK will provide some language for why we are doing